Monday, 20 July 2009

Chronicles of Riddick - Dark fury

The 35-minute animation featuring the voices of Pitch Black actors (of which Vin Diesel is the only one worth mentioning), set between Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick. For me, the fact that it is directed by Peter Chung, of Aeon Flux and "Matriculated", was the main reason of buying it during a decadent London-weekendtrip.

The visuals didn't let me down, though the strange eerie feeling of Aeon Flux wasn't there. The 'hand of the master' was visible in all characters, but not in set-design, which basically was the futuristic-spaceship-style. Particularly the scene in which evil miss shows him her collection of frozen badass motherfuckers... they could've done more with that.

Story-wise, it didn't add anything. Mostly acknowledge that Richard B. Riddick is indeed a wellknown bad-ass. Oh, and he wins. Yay.

Should watch the extra's.